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Oh, how I miss _why.

by mapleoin 16y ago

wtn 16y ago
I miss the days when Zed Shaw was a Rubyist.
- mapleoin 16y ago
  I think Zed Shaw is quite the opposite of _why. I can see _why playing with kittens and making chalk drawings on the asphalt in a torrid calm summer day and Zed driving through in a camo Hummer, smoking a big cigar and listening to industrial metal. All the kittens run scared and _why goes hiding behind a bush where he meets a new imaginary friend. I much prefer _why.
  - glenjamin 16y ago
    For some reason your description of Zed Shaw reminds me of maddox. Which has given me the idea to go see what he's written lately.
  - nkassis 16y ago
    30 inch of snow fell where I live yesterday, I'd take zed and the hummer ;p In all seriousness, they both were(are) awesome ruby developers and I wish they would come back and code more. We still use mongrel for our Rails app where I work and I've used shoes to develop a desktop client for our application.
  - knowtheory 16y ago
    Except _why and Zed got along fine. Zed is a perfectly cool dude in person. And regardless of what you think of Zed he builds good tech, shares it with others, takes contributions from other people.
    - mapleoin 16y ago
      Of course I haven't met either one of them and I can't really talk about the kind of person they are, just about their personas and the way that I perceive them.
    - deleted 16y ago
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  - ascendant 16y ago
    I don't know Zed but I got my start on the infamous rant. I read it and assumed he was just a guy that was tired of being shit on. In reading what he says and does in the following months and years, I don't get the sense he's an asshole, just that he doesn't really put up with crap unless there's a good reason.
    - michaelcampbell 16y ago
      > I don't get the sense he's an asshole, just that he doesn't really put up with crap unless there's a good reason. Which for some, make him an asshole.
defroost 16y ago
I second that. His awesome quirkiness and creativity are not easily replaced. His Seeing MetaClasses Clearly is one of my favorite Ruby metaprogramming ever.

Oh, how I miss _why.

wtn 16y ago

I miss the days when Zed Shaw was a Rubyist.

mapleoin 16y ago
I think Zed Shaw is quite the opposite of _why. I can see _why playing with kittens and making chalk drawings on the asphalt in a torrid calm summer day and Zed driving through in a camo Hummer, smoking a big cigar and listening to industrial metal. All the kittens run scared and _why goes hiding behind a bush where he meets a new imaginary friend. I much prefer _why.
- glenjamin 16y ago
  For some reason your description of Zed Shaw reminds me of maddox. Which has given me the idea to go see what he's written lately.
- nkassis 16y ago
  30 inch of snow fell where I live yesterday, I'd take zed and the hummer ;p In all seriousness, they both were(are) awesome ruby developers and I wish they would come back and code more. We still use mongrel for our Rails app where I work and I've used shoes to develop a desktop client for our application.
- knowtheory 16y ago
  Except _why and Zed got along fine. Zed is a perfectly cool dude in person. And regardless of what you think of Zed he builds good tech, shares it with others, takes contributions from other people.
  - mapleoin 16y ago
    Of course I haven't met either one of them and I can't really talk about the kind of person they are, just about their personas and the way that I perceive them.
  - deleted 16y ago
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- ascendant 16y ago
  I don't know Zed but I got my start on the infamous rant. I read it and assumed he was just a guy that was tired of being shit on. In reading what he says and does in the following months and years, I don't get the sense he's an asshole, just that he doesn't really put up with crap unless there's a good reason.
  - michaelcampbell 16y ago
    > I don't get the sense he's an asshole, just that he doesn't really put up with crap unless there's a good reason. Which for some, make him an asshole.

defroost 16y ago

I second that. His awesome quirkiness and creativity are not easily replaced. His Seeing MetaClasses Clearly is one of my favorite Ruby metaprogramming ever.